The Colonial Effect of U.S. Modern Technologies = Focusing on Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart

국문 초록 (Abstract)

1900년 필리핀 병합 이후 미국은 이 새로운 식민지를 통치하기 위해 근대 기술을 사용했다. 미국은 통신, 군사, 건설 기술을 이용해 필리핀의 정치적, 경제적 지형도를 바꿔놓았다. 이 과정에서 다수의 필리핀 토착민들이 전통사회에서 분리된 후 이주 노동자 신분으로 미국 사회에 흘러들었다. 필리핀 노동자들은 미국사회의 최하층에 위치하는데, 이는 이들이 근대 기술사회로 재편되던 흐름에서 소외됐기 때문이다. 이러한 이유로 필리핀 노동자들은 알래스카의 연어 통조림 공장이나 미 서부농장에서 저임금 노동의 착취대상이 된다. 이 논문은 카를로스 블로산 (Carlos Bulosan)이라는 필리핀계 미국 작가가 이주 노동자로서 자신의 경험을 바탕으로 기록한 『미국은 내 마음에』(America Is in the Heart)를 분석한다. 블로산의 자서전에서 묘사되는 하층 이주민의 이동을 서구 근대기술과의 관계에서 포착하는 것이 이 논문의 쟁점이다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The United States had employed modern technologies to effectively redistribute Filipino nationals since 1900 afterward. Using technologies in communication, the military, and architecture, the US War Department in particular transformed the political and economic landscapes of the Philippines. This colonial oppression destabilized the Philippines that Filipino civilians became dislocated from their traditional society and flowed into U.S. society as migrant workers. In the United States, Filipino migrants as colonial, racial minorities were situated at the lowest rung of society because they were systematically alienated from a technology-based structure. They thus labored in segregated spaces such as Alaskan canneries or western farm areas. Among others, this paper examines Carlos Bulosan who moved to the West Coast of the United States in 1930 and represented his experience into life narrative, America Is in the Heart (1946). His literature captures the repercussions of U.S. colonization that utilized modern technologies to restructure Filipino subjects. In this article, I claim that modern technologies can be a critical perspective to understand the mobility of Filipino subjects.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. Introduction
• Ⅱ. Changes that Modern Technologies Brought to American Society
• Ⅲ. Living as a Second-Class Citizen under U.S. Colonization
• Ⅳ. Filipinos as Racial Minorities in the U.S.
• Ⅴ. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• 국문초록

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